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95-year-old man redeems pledge to give 70-year-old wife dream wedding 40 years after

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2017

A 95-year-old great-grandfather has fulfilled the promise of a grand marriage and dream honeymoon he made to his now 70-year-old wife. The fulfillment came a record 40 years after they first met. Turning to his wife of 40 years at the church entrance, Pa Henry Kariuki seemed to reenact his

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Turkey’s Recep Erdogan rival vows to overturn executive presidency

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2017

A dissident Turkish nationalist who founded a new political party and is now viewed as a possible rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to scrap her opponent’s vision of a super-presidency if elected. Meral Aksener, 61, Turkey’s first female interior minister between 1996 and 1997, told AFP in an interview that she was […]

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Kim Jong-un executes two senior officials over failed nuclear test

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2017

Kim Jong-un has reportedly executed two top officials in just five days over mishaps at North Korea’s test missile site. The latest unnamed executive was killed after he allegedly took responsibility for setbacks at the Punggye-ri nuclear base, which led to the date of a rocket launch being pushed back. Five days ago, a high-ranking […]

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Senate moves tax cut legislation to brink of final passage

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2017

Jubilant Republicans pushed on early Wednesday to the verge of the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in more than three decades, a deeply unpopular bill they insist Americans will learn to love when they see their paychecks in the new year. President Donald Trump cheered the lawmakers on, eager to claim his […]

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Disgraced US cardinal Bernard Law dies

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2017

U.S. cardinal Bernard Law, who was at the centre of a huge paedophile priest scandal that rocked the US Catholic Church in 2002, has died in Rome aged 86. “Cardinal Bernard Law died early this morning after a long illness,” the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday. Born in 1931 in Mexico, the former […]

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EU laws don’t cover sharia divorce – ECJ

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2017

The EU has no say over the validity of private divorces settled under Islamic law, or sharia, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday. In 2013, the husband sought a divorce before a religious court in Syria, via a representative there. The divorce was granted by the religious court, based on the husband’s declaration […]